Google had pulled the Google Chrome rollout for M1-powered MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and the Mac Mini due to unexpected crashes. The ‘Mac with Intel chip’ option is marked as most common on the Chrome download page. The webpage shows an option to select between ‘Mac with Intel chip’ and ‘Mac with Apple chip’ when a user opens the Chrome download page on an M1-powered Mac. To download Chrome on M1-powered Mac computers, users need to visit /chrome and click the download button. Instead, they need to uninstall the current version of Chrome and then install the optimised version differently. Now that users are being able to download Chrome for their M1-powered Mac computers again, those with the Intel variant of the web browser are not getting updated automatically. However, the rollout was paused soon after as some users experienced ‘unexpected crashes.’ Less than a day after the company paused the new Google Chrome rollout for M1-powered Mac computers, it has now been resumed and M1-powered Mac users can go ahead and start downloading the new web browser. Soon after Apple launched its first Apple M1-powered Mac computers, Google started rolling out a Mac version of its Chrome web browser that is optimised for Apple’s M1 Silicon chip.
